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SGI IS4600 unboxing

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

We recently purchased an additional IS-4600 disk array from SGI filled to the brim with 2TB SATA disks. Once we build all th LUNs (8+2 raid 6) we will end up with an additional (usable) 680 TB of disk. This beast can handle an aggregate 6.4GB/s of I/O and can sustain 175K read (45K write) […]

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I Start a New Job

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

A bout 2 weeks a go, I started a new Job at ANU Supercomputer Facility (ANUSF). I must admit that I am a bit excited and hope that I will be content over there. This should be getting exciting in the next couple of months as they are installing a new supper computer. They are […]

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